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More new music from Trent Reznor! Theme for Shinya Tsukamoto’s film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. I’m looking forward to this movie…and the soundtrack for sure.

Creepy video in 1080p for stunning opening track of Trent Reznor’s new band How To Destroy Angels.

Having very mixed emotions while writing this. About an hour ago at small club, The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California, ended era of the most magnificent live performances probably ever made. Nine Inch Nails‘s last show of Wave Goodbye tour took place there today and according to several forums the atmosphere has been intense, incredible, epic, etc etc.

At the same time this means that my 6th and probably last NIN show happened at Milan this summer. All those six shows has been overwhelming unique experiences, including long and short distance traveling, meeting great people, seeing awesome opening acts (Ladytron, Serena Maneesh, The Mars Volta, Korn, QOTSA…), long car drives, spending ridiculous amounts of $ to plane ticks, having friends around the globe, having good times before and after show…so much great memories. Every gig has meant to me more than I can express myself now without sounding cliché. I Never forget the feelings and excitement minutes before the first song of the set. I never forget the empty, tired but happy feelings after the last song.

But to all fellow Nails fans, there’s no need for depression. Nevertheless worldwide, long tours are now probably over the story of the band continues. As mr. Reznor says “My best work is yet to become”

Facts about the last show @  Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, CA 2009.09.10 [...]

Setlist:

1. Home
2. Somewhat Damaged
3. The Collector
4. Discipline
5. March of The Pigs
6. Something I Can Never Have
7. The Frail
8. The Wretched
9. Ruiner
10. Head Down
11. Burn
12. Just Like You Imagined (w Mike Garson)
13. La Mer (w Mike Garson)
14. Eraser (w Mike Garson)
15. The Becoming (Still) (w Mike Garson)
16. Down In The Park (w Gary Numan & Mike Garson intro(?) )
17. Metal (w Gary Numan)
18. I Die: You Die (w Gary Numan)

19. 1,000,000
20. Letting You
21. Survivalism
22. Suck
23. Down In It
24. The Hand That Feeds
25. Head Like A Hole

26. Me, I’m Not (w Atticus Ross)
27. The Warning (w Atticus Ross & Dave Navarro)
28. Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) (w Dave Navarro)
29. Gave Up (w Dave Navarro)

30. Mr. Self Destruct (w The Dillinger Escape Plan)
31. Wish (w The Dillinger Escape Plan)
32. Atmosphere (cover – Joy Division)
33. Dead Souls (cover – Joy Division)
34. The Good Soldier
35. The Day The World Went Away
36. Hurt
37. In This Twilight

Said after gig in forums:

“unreal show. as great as the last phx show and fonda was, this was on another level. really a significantly higher level for me”

“one word….EPIC!”

“I can’t stop crying… show started at 9:23pm and ended at 12:38pm. WOW!!!”

“Holy shit. That was probably the best show I’ve ever attended…”

“Words cannot describe what I just witnessed.”

Interesting notes:

- NIN went to number one trending topic in Twitter during the show.

- There has been lots of professional HD cams in last gigs…DVD?

- Trent on thank you speech: “I will continue doing music with these guys…”

- According to nintourhistory.com this show was the 830:th NIN concert.

- In This Twilight was 15010:th song performed live.

Discussion of the show, links to YouTube vids and more in nin.com forum
Review in Spin.com

Final song: In This Twilight

Here is the full post by Trent Reznor:

[disclaimer]
This was written on a bumpy Euro-bus ride across the wilderness – may ramble a bit but I think the point gets across.
TR

I posted a message on Twitter yesterday stating I thought The Beastie Boys and TopSpin Media “got it right” regarding how to sell music in this day and age. Here’s a link to their store:

[illcommunication.beastieboys.com]

Shortly thereafter, I got some responses from people stating the usual “yeah, if you’re an established artist – what if you’re just trying to get heard?” argument. In an interview I did recently this topic came up and I’ll reiterate what I said here.

If you are an unknown / lesser-known artist trying to get noticed / established:

Establish your goals. What are you trying to do / accomplish? If you are looking for mainstream super-success (think Lady GaGa, Coldplay, U2, Justin Timberlake) – your best bet in my opinion is to look at major labels and prepare to share all revenue streams / creative control / music ownership. To reach that kind of critical mass these days your need old-school marketing muscle and that only comes from major labels. Good luck with that one.

If you’re forging your own path, read on.

Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth is the only true marketing that matters.
To clarify:
Parter with a TopSpin or similar or build your own website, but what you NEED to do is this – give your music away as high-quality DRM-free MP3s. Collect people’s email info in exchange (which means having the infrastructure to do so) and start building your database of potential customers. Then, offer a variety of premium packages for sale and make them limited editions / scarce goods. Base the price and amount available on what you think you can sell. Make the packages special – make them by hand, sign them, make them unique, make them something YOU would want to have as a fan. Make a premium download available that includes high-resolution versions (for sale at a reasonable price) and include the download as something immediately available with any physical purchase. Sell T-shirts. Sell buttons, posters… whatever.

Don’t have a TopSpin as a partner? Use Amazon for your transactions and fulfillment. [www.amazon.com]

Use TuneCore to get your music everywhere. [www.tunecore.com]

Have a realistic idea of what you can expect to make from these and budget your recording appropriately.
The point is this: music IS free whether you want to believe that or not. Every piece of music you can think of is available free right now a click away. This is a fact – it sucks as the musician BUT THAT’S THE WAY IT IS (for now). So… have the public get what they want FROM YOU instead of a torrent site and garner good will in the process (plus build your database).

The Beastie Boys’ site offers everything you could possibly want in the formats you would want it in – available right from them, right now. The prices they are charging are more than you should be charging – they are established and you are not. Think this through.

The database you are amassing should not be abused, but used to inform people that are interested in what you do when you have something going on – like a few shows, or a tour, or a new record, or a webcast, etc.
Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace – it’s dying and reads as cheap / generic. Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don’t autoplay). Constantly update your site with content – pictures, blogs, whatever. Give people a reason to return to your site all the time. Put up a bulletin board and start a community. Engage your fans (with caution!) Make cheap videos. Film yourself talking. Play shows. Make interesting things. Get a Twitter account. Be interesting. Be real. Submit your music to blogs that may be interested. NEVER CHASE TRENDS. Utilize the multitude of tools available to you for very little cost of any – Flickr / YouTube / Vimeo / SoundCloud / Twitter etc.

If you don’t know anything about new media or how people communicate these days, none of this will work. The role of an independent musician these days requires a mastery of first hand use of these tools. If you don’t get it – find someone who does to do this for you. If you are waiting around for the phone to ring or that A & R guy to show up at your gig – good luck, you’re going to be waiting a while.

Hope this helps, and I’ll scour responses for intelligent comments I can respond to.

TR
TopSpin Media info:
[topspinmedia.com]

Latest Nine Inch Nails on stage update from Australia.

NINJA…..

FULL LINEUP ANNOUNCED! Our tour this summer with Jane’s Addiction just got that much cooler. I’m happy to announce the addition of Street Sweeper - the new project featuring Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine / The Nightwatchman) and Boots Riley (The Coup). Have an exclusive first listen RIGHT HERE.

We are aiming to make this much more than just three acts sharing a bill…

On sale info coming soon.

posted by  trent reznor to nin.com at 5:01pm

Still waiting for Euro dates…

Just in case if there’s someone who has lived in moon past 6 days….first of all welcome back to Earth! Secondly Trent @ crew are posting pretty awesome on stage video shootings from their current tour to official NIN vimeo account. I would call those the band simulations.

Cool note: All videos are filmed with the Canon 5D Mark II, consumer digital camera. Quality is stunning and it’s not even in it’s best here. 5D is definitley on my wish list, so dear Santa Claus, I know I’m early on this but…could we have a talk!

NIN @ Sydney February 24th 2009. Power in the Hordern Pavilion went out midway through the set, forcing the show to stop for 40 minutes and nearly causing it to be canceled.

Gossip of the day, this is important so I made a rip off from TwentyFourBit.com:

A cryptic message left on Trent Reznor’s rumored Twitter account is starting to make a lot more sense now that Reznor has posted studio pictures on the official Nine Inch Nails site. The photos, which Reznor captioned “a look at something else that’s been going on” parts 1-4, show Jane’s Addiction members Eric Avery, Stephen Perkins, and Dave Navarro in a recording studio. The photo of Navarro (see above) shows Reznor in the studio as well.

On January 28th, Reznor posted, “In the studio. Not with NIN,” on his rumored Twitter. In light of these photos of him with three out of four members of Jane’s Addiction, it is quite possible he is producing an upcoming Jane’s addiction album, which would be their first with original bassist, Eric Avery, since 1991.

The official Jane’s Addiction website says they are planning a show in Los Angeles soon and has a blog section called “In The Studio” that has yet to be updated. Check out NIN.com for Reznor’s latest photo updates or see the photo of Avery and Perkins by clicking here.